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Attempted Grenade Attack on President Bush While Speaking in Georgia?
2005-05-10
No link as yet; this was just reported on Fox News. According to the report, no one was hurt, and the grenade did not go off.

From AP:
Agents Check Report of Grenade Near Bush
Must not have been too near, if the Secret Service didn't notice it...
The Secret Service was investigating a report Tuesday that a hand grenade was thrown at the stage during President Bush's speech in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. After Bush left Georgia on Tuesday, the Secret Service was informed by Georgian authorities of a report that a device, possibly a hand grenade, had been thrown within 100 feet of the stage during Bush's speech, hit someone in the crowd and fell to the ground, Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said.
"Within 100 feet" isn't on stage...
According to the report, a Georgian security officer picked up the device and removed it from the area.
Either that's a guy with real guts or it wasn't a grenade...
The Secret Service had not seen the device as of Tuesday evening, Cherry said. It has agents in Tbilisi working with the FBI, State Department and Georgian authorities to investigate the report. Cherry said he couldn't characterize the source of the report. Bush was returning to the United States late Tuesday after a four-country trip that also included stops in Russia, Latvia and the Netherlands. He was the first American president to visit Georgia.
Posted by:Phil Fraering

#8  One final note before I go to eat and go home... Fred, I put this on Page 2 because I wasn't sure at the time how "real" it was. Now, I'm still not. The authorities in Georgia apparently didn't even mention the incident until Bush was already in transit BACK to the U.S.

It would be a neat feature if we could assign a "credibility rating" to an article... with the poster of the article (and the editor) getting two "votes," and everyone else getting one...
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-05-10 20:00  

#7  Thankfully for the spectators, it was a dud...
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-05-10 19:38  

#6  As per the Report from TV.. Within 100 feet. Dud?
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-05-10 19:37  

#5  Hekz boyz: "Throw Like A Little Girl" Handgrenade Academy?
Posted by: Frank G   2005-05-10 19:29  

#4  If it was in fact a grenade, the throwing style makes me think Kashmir training.
Posted by: Fred   2005-05-10 19:27  

#3  Either or both. We tend to forget what a target Bush is, not just for the Islamists, but also for all the leftwing (and probably rightwing) nut jobs out there.
Posted by: Fred   2005-05-10 19:24  

#2  Ah, thanks for the update, Fred.

The more details I see, the more I wonder if they might have been trying to kill people in the crowd... IF this was a real event.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-05-10 19:22  

#1  OK, have a link now:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156149,00.html.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-05-10 19:20  

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